No they just changed the definition of pandemic.
I thought that H1N1 was a new Russian helicopter .....
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The facts are in. My opinion no longer matters.
I am waiting for folks who trashed me for predicting this to stop on by and say they’re sorry.
Crickets...
I don’t really expect it, and don’t really want it. I’m just sayin’...
What I want is for folks to dial it down 70 or 80 notches the next idiotic public health scare that comes along.
Absolute panic and fear-mongering is no substitute for being level headed and sticking to the known facts.
I came with an inch of dying from it in October
Scandal of the century? Maybe one of them...
H1N1 ranks right up there with Global Warming
And let’s not forget Bird flu from 2-3 years back...
It’s kinda strange that I just happen to know people who died from it and some who nearly died. That’s usually not true of communicable diseases.
It wasn’t the pharmaceutical industry pushing this thing.
If anybody had an interest in perpetrating a scare, it was the Obama administration, but I don’t see this either. They did their bit, but mostly it was public/media getting too excited in the way of madness of crowds.
I think so!
Now, here in WNY, there are signs: “There will be a third wave of H1N1. Get your shot!” or something like that.
NOW, they have so much vaccine left over, they don’t want it to go to waste...
The new official definition of “pandemic” now is “a communicable disease that the government wants the population to be scared of.”
I am a perfectly healthy person who eats organic and keeps on top of health issues, works out, etc.
The H1N1 in December nearly killed me in 4 days. I had terrible pneumonia. Still do not feel completely well ever. Thank G-d for heavy antibiotics or I would be dead today.
I’ve had flus before but nothing like this.
So NO, I do not think it was only hype. They hyped up the vaccine, true, but we lost a lot of healthy people so far to this flu. It is BULLPOOP that this flu can only seriously hurt those who had pre-existing conditions. It can be a killer for the healthy as well.
Absolutely, it was the flu, regular old everyday flu. If H1N1 was a legit pandemic then every flu season is a pandemic and now the word has no meaning.
I agree that it was a man made pandemic ... not a viral one
Of course. Only one of many manufactured crises...
H1N1, Bird Flu, “global warming”, “too big to fail” / “I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market”, the “hunt” for bin Laden, ...
There will be more soon, their work isn’t done yet.
The pictures posted all over the internet with everyone wearing the surgical masks in Asia helped to hype the hysteria and 0bama is not about to let a good crisis go to waste.
By that basic definition, H1N1 absolutely WAS (still is?) a pandemic, as it has spread worldwide.
The problem seems to be (typical) MSM ignorance of what the word "pandemic" means and what it implies.
Yes.
Scared the H out of people but got them to get ineffective shots. (shots lost potency)
Similar to Globull Warming!!